According to the Institute for the Study of War (ISW), who produced the attack map earlier this year, ISIS will likely ramp up its war on Europe – including Britain.

What’s even more terrifying is that the leaders of the ruthless and psychotic terror group seem to bent on bringing about the end of the world in a final battle in Rome and the Vatican City.

ISIS, also known as Daesh, fantasise about a brutal and bloody end with an Armageddon involving jihadist and "infidel" armies in the heart of Europe.

This year the group have been pumping out slickly made propaganda videos pinpointing Rome as the spot for the last battle against "crusaders". And guess what Islam, or rather ISIS, wins.

In one of the death cult's most frightening video so far, tanks belonging to the terrorist nut-jobs are seen advancing on a crumbling Colosseum.

The disturbing footage called "Meeting at Dabiq" reveals a creepy apocalyptic vision of the last days of Earth.

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CENTRE OF CHRISTIANITY: The Vatican City is shown in the terrorists'video

Shots show an eerie St Peter's Basilica, the papal enclave within the Vatican City, bathed in an orange light and accompanied by chilling music.

The video's narrator then apparently claims ISIS will take over Rome, destroying crucifixes and taking Christian women as slaves.

During the medieval times the Pope sent hundreds of thousands of Christians ‘crusaders’ to regain the holy land in the middle east from Muslim invaders.

Back then the Vatican wanted the territory back because this was where Jesus was born and later crucified on the cross.

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TAKING OVER: An ISIS video shows ISIS's caliphate dream

“It is very important that attacks take place in every country that has entered into the alliance against the Islamic State, especially the US, the UK, France, Australia and Germany”

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Fears are growing over the safety of the Pope.

It has been revealed that he will be giving his Christmas address this year in a bullet proof vest.

As well as sinister videos, ISIS have writing menacing articles in its propaganda magazine Dabiq. A recent one splashes an image of St Peter's Square in the Vatican City on its front page – with an ISIS flag flying over St Peter's Basilica

The article urges Muslims to kill “every crusader possible...wherever they can be found”.

“At this point of the crusade against the Islamic State, it is very important that attacks take place in every country that has entered into the alliance against the Islamic State, especially the US, the UK, France, Australia and Germany,” it reads.

“Every Muslim should get out of his house, find a crusader and kill him... And the Islamic State will remain until its banner flies over Rome.”

Boston University associate professor Richard Landes, who has studied ISIS as an apocalyptic cult, said: "Why wouldn’t they target it [Rome]?

"They know that Rome has symbolic power, indeed they still live in the Middle Ages, when Rome had immense symbolic power.

"Part of their success comes from our inability to understand what we face."

Prof Landes said he does not believe ISIS are plotting a crucifix with its pattern of attacks. But if it were to plot out a symbol on Europe, he believes it would be an Islamic crescent stamped on the continent.

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Air strikes in Syria leave behind devastating consequences in the war against Daesh militants.

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A man stands on the rubble of a destroyed building following reported air strikes by government forces in the rebel-held Shaar neighbourhood of the northern city Aleppo